Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-11-28

chased a building lot of c. S. Morgan
and commenced the erection Of a house
which he hopes to get ready for occu-
pancv soon.
The fourth entertainment in the New
port lecture course will be given Wednes-
day evening, Dec. 9TH by Miss Addie
Nichols, reader, and Miss Ella Chamber
lin solo whistler.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. II. Flint were kindly
remembered Friday evening in honor of
their 25th marriage anniversary, when
a large party Of friends met to spend
the evening. There were presents,
speeches, responses, select readings
and kind wishes in abundance.
1t was a genuine surprise to Mr.. and
Mrs Lorenzo Pratt last Monday evening,
when their friends, nearly sixty in num-
Der took possession of their house, fill
ing it to overlooking, reminding them of
the thirty-fifth anniversary of their mar
riage. After time spent in social VS.
iting and music, the Rev Mr.. Arms pre-
sented in a little speech, the happy pair
with two very nice willow chairs, as a
slight token of the esteem in which they
were held by their neighbors and friends,
which was responded to by mine host
after which the company departed
Newport Center.
Mrs. Frank Stevens of Coventry has
been here visiting.
Baldwin Sias has moved into the Alvin
Larrabee house in the village and taken a
chopping job of Charles Sias & SOM.
Rollins has moved into rooms in the Mrs
Quimby block.
The next regular meeting of Alexander
Post. G. A. R.. will be held Monday even
ing, Dec. 9Th All members of the Post
are Earnestly requested to be present, as
the annual election of officers takes place
then.
North Troy.
John Bisbee retires from the manage
ment of Hapgood & Sons excelsior facto-
~, preparatory to engaging in the lumber
business. Y. \. Phillips is Bisbee's sue
cessor and manufactures the excelsior at
a certain price per ton.
A Southeastern freight train of three
cars, going north and due at Lachine at
a. H., plunged into the open drawbridge
on the canal at that place Sunday morn
ing. The engineer, Ed. Remington, went
down with the wreck and at last accounts
his body had not been recovered. The
fireman, although terribly injured, swan
ashore, and the brakeman jumped from
the top of the train to the ground, a dis
lance of forty feet or more and escaped
with severe shakingS. 1t is not known
whether the signal at the draw was wrong
or that the fault was with the train men.
Remington was 80 years of age and I'M
married
south Troy.
Milton Bean is better.
Will Brewster is clerking for F. B.
Hammond.
Post-office Inspector Boynton was here
last week.
Forty-fve couples at the ball at Aiken's
hall on Thursday evening.
Ara Miller and wife will stop with
Mrs. Orsou Miller this winter.
Some one took a robe from Mr.. viii
sons sleigh while the team was hitched
under j. S. Young's shed, Monday night.
Maud Conner has gone to Lowell
Mass, to spend the winter and Lizzie
Sumner to Hyde Park.
weStHeId.
Geo. r. Hoyt will buy dressed hogs.
Mrs Ed. Hunt is in Franklin county
with a sick daughter.
Mrs S. S. Johnson has returned from
a visit to \. H. and Mass.
Miss Minnie johnson is teaching or the
river road in Troy this winter.
Thomas Doyle has one hand quite bad
" used up by an accident in the woods.
We notice in other papers the death of
A. W Goodrich, former resident of this
town.
Mrs Andrew Cross has gone to Man
chester, \. H, Andrew still staying at
Lowell.
Principal M. S. Stone of Morrisville
Academy has been at his home in town
for few days.
E. NJ. Todd will stay on the farm of
James Clark, that he occupied last year.
We are glad to have Ed. stay with US.
George Dusham has moved from the
village to West Hill.-Wesley Kempton
has moved from the place he sold to the
house occupied by Ben. Wedge.
Emery Austin will move from Lowell
to Hoyt & Wakefeld's mill, where he is
hired for year.-Ben. Cooper will move
to Lowell, where he has rented tenement
in the village.
Mrs. R. II. Wright is not much i'm
proved in health, while others of the sick
are on the gain. There is so much sick
ness in town that it keeps Dr. Gray pref
ty busy: he has a large and increasing
practice
A. Fl. HoYt, our punctual express mes
senger has concluded to make his regu
lar trips to Newport and return now only
each Monday and Saturday and his nu-
merous patrons must make arrangements
to send then or not at all.
Rev Granger found that he had one
evening in two weeks that was not occu-
pied so he holds meetings on Monday
evenings once in two weeks at the school
house in Mill district He is doing
large work, which we hope will be at
tended with good results.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
st hn=burV.
Florist Gibbs pIesides over one of the
lesser industries of the place but one
that grows each year. He never had so
many well-filled greenhouses as this year
and never any flowers that were in bet
ter condition. These goods are shipped
miles away in about every direction and